Re: Windows Task Manager.......can someone advise on how to interpert the information?

RC <RC-Ü@hotmail.com> wrote:

I was wondering if someone could advise me about:

Totals
Handles
Threads
Processes

Threads - I've no idea. Processes would be "programs" running,
right?

That might be a little bit too involved anyway.

For Physical Memory I understand Total and Available but what does
System Cache indicate?

I don't know.

As long as there is some Available that is
good, right?

Commit Charge Kernal Memory
Total Total
Limit Paged
Peak Nonpaged

Again, maybe too involved.

Ok, I'm clueless here. I don't know what it means or what it
tells me. I THINK I read something somewhere that said certain
numbers or ratios indicated a need for more RAM.

I'll also be searching the web for this info, but if someone has
a firm enough grasp of this subject matter to assist me, I would
greatly appreciate it.

In my opinion, I have a decent grasp of how to use Task Manager, but
I wouldn't be very concerned about the things you are looking at. I
use Task Manager for shutting programs down when necessary and for
adjusting priorities.

There is a freeware utility called Prio that puts another tab on the
Task Manager window. It allows you to permanently change the
priority of tasks. That is fun. Decreasing the priority of my most
important program actually increases overall system performance.
That utility also somehow validates programs (I'm not sure what that
involves).

One last thing:
Sometimes when I run a program, the program seems to take forever
to do its thing, YET, when I check the Windows Task Manager, under
processes, I see that the System Idle Process is between 80-95%
which tells me the computer is doing a whole lot of nothing. How
can the System Idle Process be so high if the computer is
dragging?

That's a good question IMO.

Another measure in Windows XP is called Performance Monitor. It's
like a dashboard. Used to be called System Monitor in Windows 98.
And in Windows 3.1, I think it was called CacheMon but maybe only
measured system cache usage. Currently I use Performance Monitor for
keeping an eye on CPU activity, free system memory, bytes sent, and
bytes received. That application is something a secondary monitor is
useful for, especially since Microsoft downgraded the window
interface so that the utility takes up a lot more room.

Good luck.












Thank You

RC


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